NUR 162 Chapter 10
- What Is Recovery?
Answer a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self- directed life, and strive to reach their full potential
- Describe the four dimensions that support a life in recovery
Answer Health, Home, Purpose, Community
- life in recovery
Health Answer overcoming or managing one's disease, as well as living in a physically and emotionally healthy way.
- life in recovery
Home Answer a stable and safe place to live.
- life in recovery
- life in recovery
Purpose Answer meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.
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Answer relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.Guiding
- Principles of Recovery
Answer Emerges from hopeIs person-driven Occurs via many pathways
Holistic Supported by peers and allies Supported through relationship/social networks Culturally based and influenced
- Recovery emerges from hope
- The belief that recovery is real provides the essential and motivating message of a better
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future
- that people can and do overcome the internal and external challenges, barriers, and obstacles
that confront them.
- Recovery is person-driven
- Self-determination and self-direction are the foun- dations for recovery as individuals define
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their own life goals and design their unique path(s) toward those goals.
- Recovery occurs via many pathways
- Individuals are unique, with distinct needs, strengths, preferences, goals, cultures, and
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backgrounds that affect and determine their pathway(s) to recovery.
- Recovery is built on the multiple capacities, strengths, talents, coping abilities, resources, and
inherent value of each individual.
- Recovery is holistic
- Recovery encompasses an individual's whole life, in- cluding mind, body, spirit, and
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